Wagon end-board



(NoModeL) L. VAN ALSTYNEL Wagon End Board.

No. 234,697. P-atent ed Nov. 23', 1880.

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WAGON END-BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 234,697, dated November 23, 1880.

Application filed August 23, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LAWRENCE VAN AL- STYNE, of Sharon Valley, in the county of Litchfield and State of Connecticut, have invented a new \Vagon End-Board; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawing constitutes part of this specification, and represents an end view of the wagon-body with the invention applied to the end-board. V

This invention relates to an improvement in devices for securing the end-board of wagons and other vehicles in which the end-board is made removable. The fact of leaving the rear end of the body so as to be opened takes from the sides of the body the support which a permanent end gives; again, the end-board is necessarily loose, and is a source of great annoyance, because of the noise produced by jar from the wagon.

The object of this invention is to overcome these difficulties; and it consists in the construction as hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claim.

A represents the wagon-bottom, B B the sides, and C the end-board, which is arranged between guides D, so as to slide up and down in removing, in the usual manner.

011 the board, in suitable guides to, a bolt, 1), is arranged each side the center, and extending toward the sides of the body. The inner end of the two bolts is turned into and arranged to engage eccentric grooves (Z in a disk, 6, hung so as to be rotated upon a pivot, f, and so that by turning said disk a longitudinal movement is imparted to each of the bolts. The disk is provided with a handle, it, as a convenient means for turning it. The outer end of each of the bolts is made in hook or equivalent shape, a, so that when the board is dropped into place the ends a will engage a permanent staple or equivalent device, m, in the sides of the wagon.

The operation is as follows: To introduce the board to the wagon, turn the disk 6 so as to throw both the bolts outward; then set the board in place. The ends a of the bolts will enter or engage the stationary devicesm. Then turn the disk to draw the bolts toward the center, which draws upon the two sides at the same time, serving to clamp the board between the two sides, and thereby locking the board in place, as well as affording a support for the sides of the body.

The eccentric slots hold the bolts in their lock, the strain upon the disk being diametricall y through the center. While the disk shape shown for operating the bolts is preferred, it"

may be in the form of a lover, or other convenient shape, it only being essential that it shall move the bolts, and at the same time hold them in any position to which they may be drawn.

I am aware that end-boards have been secured by bolts attached to a lever hung upon the endboard, and so that by turning the said lever the bolts would be moved. I do not,

therefore, wish to be understood as broadlyclaiming such a device; but I am not aware that an eceentrically-slotted disk has been pivoted to the end-board, and so that the slots in the disk alone lock the bolts.

I claim- In combination with the wagon end-board, the eccentrieally-slotted rotating disk or lever 6, two hook-shaped bolts, 12 1), arranged for longitudinal movement only, and engaged, respectively, with the slots of the disk, and a stationary device on each side of the body, with which the bolts will engage, substantially as and for the purpose described.

LAWRENCE VAN ALSTYNE.

Witnesses:

CARRIE LANDON, FITCH LANDON. 

